Albert Cheuret

alabaster and silvered bronze, the domed shade above a further trumpet form shade carved with a pebble motif, continued along the tapering stem with two alabaster bands above the splayed foot

Cheuret's biography leaves many gaps to this day. From the little which is known we can find that he defined himself as a sculptor-decorator further to studying sculpture under Jacques Perrin and Georges Lemaire. He ran his own studio at 11 avenue Franco-Russe in Paris and from 1907 he became a regular exhibitor at the Salon des Artistes Français. Best known for his contribution at the  Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris in 1925, he shows influences of the popular interest in Egyptian mythological artefacts further to the discovery of Tutankhamen's grave by Howard Carter three years earlier. In the same year he set up a showroom on the Pont Alexandre III where he exhibited furniture, clocks, bronzes and a wide range of bronze and alabaster light fittings.